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Numbers Study - 2025-05-21

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An ongoing bible study on the book of Numbers. This week’s lesson is presented by Jesse Bonner.

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Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast. If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. Thank you for joining us today. So I'm gonna need you guys prayer. Me and my two brothers started a diet called the carnivore diet. If anyone's ever heard of it, it's great. You only eat meat exclusively and some dairy and apparently it's really good for you. But I overdid it and I ate way too much meat right before coming here.

So a little nauseous, but we're gonna make it through all right. So pray for me when you think about it because you don't want to see it, right? We made it through Leviticus. So give yourselves a round of applause. Wasn't it better than you expected? You always hear like how awful Leviticus is and it was great. So we're in Numbers and to do a little math. So Exodus was one year for the Israelites. Leviticus was one month for the Israelites. And then Numbers is 28 or 38 years.

So if you do the math that it took us six months to get through one month of Bible time, that means we're gonna be studying Numbers for 224 years. So if that math pans out, we'll see. I think we'll be studying it in heaven because I don't think we're gonna be doing it this long, but. Anyway, so just wanted to go through a little bit of a high level of Numbers. Before we really get into chapters one and two, we're not gonna read the entirety of the chapters. I feel like

really these chapters, it's a census. So it talks about the total numbers of people in in Israel at that time. So for me when I read this, I see like, okay, this is straightforward numbers of people, but what we see here is it's a fulfilled promise that we're gonna talk about and that's really the significance of this. So in Hebrew, they don't call it Numbers. They actually call it in the wilderness because that's the first opening line of

Numbers. It says when the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness. And Moses wrote this. It's a continuation of Exodus, then Leviticus and now into Numbers. And like I said, Leviticus was one month. Now Numbers is 38 years. It was not supposed to be 38 years. That first generation coming out of Egypt was supposed to inherit the Promised Land, but they disobeyed, they didn't have faith in God, and they had to wander until the 40 years ended. The whole generation died and the new generation

went into the Promised Land. So Numbers is broken up really into two sections, and that is chapters 1 through 10, which is preparation for the journey. So it's gonna cover some, you know, they're doing a census here, some rules, what to expect, I guess, and then chapters 10 through 36 is the actual journey. And you'll see that rebellion, the punishment, and the preparation for the new generation going in. And, you know, Numbers is great. There's some crazy stuff that happens.

And I know a lot of pastors that will teach from the Old Testament love the stories in here. So there's a lot of application and pretty entertaining stories. And while I was reading this, it says that Moses wrote this book in around the 1400s BC. And for a while there were a bunch of scholars that said, there's no way Moses wrote this. This was actually written when they were in Babylon. Hundreds and hundreds of years later, I think in the years like 4 to 500 BC.

So we're looking at like almost a thousand years later. And I love this because then this was debunked. Like you can't go against God. If you go against Him, you're gonna lose. And they actually discovered something called the silver katathinom scrolls in 1979. You probably haven't heard of it, neither did I. But the oldest Bible verse we have written verbatim was discovered on these silver scrolls. And it was Numbers 6 24 through 26 that says, the Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Isn't that a beautiful one? So that was discovered on these scrolls. That's from the year 700 BC, prior to the exile age. So we know for sure that this is definitely from Moses's time. He wrote it and this theory is totally wrong. So this was written at the time that we believe it to be written. Alright, so let's see what we can get out of chapters 1 through 2.

It's actually, there's a lot packed in here because of the importance of this promise fulfilled. But let's read just chapter 1 verses 1 through 3. Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tabernacle of meeting on the first day of the second month in the second year. So this is the second year, like we said, on the second month in the wilderness.

And the Lord says, take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, by their father's houses, according to the numbers of the names of every male individual, from 20 years old and above, all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies. So here we see that they are going to number the people.

And the reason they're actually able to do this is because already there was organization by Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, who said, look, this is too much work for you to manage all the people. Put people below you in charge of the thousands and the hundreds and the tens.

So now you have people who are in charge of ten people and a family, and so they count the names and return those numbers to the next stage, up to the next stage, so they could actually take a census pretty accurately and quickly. So this isn't just like Moses going through these crazy amounts of people and trying to add them up. He had all these people coming to him, and they totaled it up. This number, which is amazing, you'll see in verse 45, we jump there.

So it says, so all who were numbered of the children of Israel by their father's houses, from 20 years old and above, all who were able to go to war in Israel, all who were numbered were 603,550. That's just men over the age of 20 who could go to war.

There's possibly some people that weren't capable of going to war that were not counted in that number, and in addition to that, scholars say, based on the factors of children and females and people not able to go to war, we'd be looking at somewhere between 2 to 2.5 million people going into the wilderness. Isn't that incredible? So I went to chat GPT, and I'm like, okay.

If we had normal people with large families, because think about these people having like 10, 12 kids or something, and I put in all the numbers, and it turned out this number that's actually like, yes, this number is feasible, especially if there's heavy group identity, which there is the people of God, and also spiritual blessing, you can't take God out of this. He blessed the families, and they were doing great.

So there's literally over 2 million people, and chat GPT even agrees with me, no. But why does this matter, right? You might be wondering, okay, cool. A lot of people came out, and now we numbered them. This seems pretty dry. Well, the reason this is so important is because God keeps his promises. God made massive, incredible promises over this very chapter, 430 years before. So let's turn to Genesis 12.

Verse 1 through 3. Now the Lord had said to Abram, who would later be renamed Abraham, get out of your country from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. He said to Abraham, I will make you a great nation.

Now Abraham was already 75 years old when he got this word from the Lord. And he believed him, but then he struggled, but then he believed him and struggled, but still believed. And it actually took another 25 years until his son came Isaac. So he was 100 years old when he had this promise son that was then going to turn into two and a half million people. So let's turn to Genesis 15 now, because this promise is again confirmed.

Verse 1. After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward. But Abram said, Lord God, what will you give me seeing I go childless? And the heir of my house is Eleazar of Damascus. Then Abram said, look, you have given me no offspring. Indeed, one born in my house is my heir.

And behold, the word of the Lord came to him saying, this one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir. And he brought him outside and said, look now to award heaven and count the stars. If you are able to number them, and he said to him, so shall your descendants be, and he believed in the Lord and he accounted it to him for righteousness.

It goes on to say that he was going to give him also the land of Canaan and that these people would actually be slaves in a foreign land in the land of Egypt and it would be 400 years. Now, if you have questions about the 400 years because they were actually only enslaved for 215, well, that actually adds up that Ishmael, the son of Hagar in Egyptian at the age of five, started persecuting Isaac, the chosen son.

And so God is saying at that time in this foreign land, even at the persecution when Isaac was a kid, this is the beginning of the 400 years of persecution. But this promise is being fulfilled right here. Now they're coming out of the strongest country at that time, this nation of Egypt. Super evil, super strong, nobody can beat them. And the Lord does these crazy plagues and just shows his power and his wrath and takes them out of there.

And he also makes two and a half million people thrive in the wilderness and he's taking them there to the promised land, to Canaan now. He's giving it to them, he's confirming it and he's equipping them and he even calls them before they've ever fought a war, he calls them their armies. Aren't you glad that God sees the good in you before you ever even see it? Like he can see the destiny that's on you, he can see what he's called you to, even when you don't believe it yourself.

And here he is, he's calling these people armies and he's preparing and equipping them to do the very thing that he's called them to do, that he's promised 430 years before. Now, the last part of the promise that we first read was, in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So we don't see that right here, how this is happening. But Galatians 3 16 says, now to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made.

He does not say and to seeds as of many, but as of one to your seed, who is Christ? This promise was not only fulfilled 400 years later, but we're looking at what is that 1800 years later when Jesus is born is the final fulfillment of this promise because the seed who is Jesus, a descendant of Abraham is now blessing all the nations of the world through salvation, which is by his death on the cross. And this doesn't, this isn't free, right? This actually comes at great cost.

And let's take a look right here in, actually let's finish Galatians 3, it says, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. And the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Abraham, the father of the faith, right? He believed and it was counted to him as righteousness before the law ever came. Faith made you righteous.

Then the law came and that was to guide them to realize they need a savior. But here he is, he realizes, and I believe he probably captured part of it. He didn't even know the full thing, but one day Jesus would come from him. He would save all the nations of the world and actually give us his spirit, the greatest fulfilled promise of all. But this does come at a cost, right?

At the end of Genesis 15, when we saw this whole, like when he gives up promises accounted to him as righteousness, they do this thing called a cutting ceremony. Now, this is actually somewhat common back in the day at that time. They would get animals, they would cut them in half, put one on each side, kind of like these chairs. One person who was saying, yes, I'm gonna agree to this promise, this covenant is on that end.

The other person's here and they walk through the middle and meet in the middle and they then like shake hands, whatever they do, I don't know at that point, but they say something and they make this promise. And what it's saying is, if either of us breaks this promise, we're gonna be like these animals. That person has the punishment of death being broken in half and dead. But Moses is put under, I mean, not Moses, Abraham is put under a deep sleep, which we see.

It says in verse 10, he brought all these to him, these animals, and then verse 12, when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Moses and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. And he said to Abram, no, certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs and will serve them and they will flick them 400 years. And the nation whom they serve, I will judge.

And then jump down to 17, it says, it came to pass when the sun was down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces of animals. On the same day, the Lord made covenant with Abram. This is incredible because think about it, Abraham was supposed to walk halfway through and meet with God. But while he's asleep, God walks all the way through. And what he's saying is, if you break this covenant, I will die. We see Jesus here.

Usually if you break the covenant, you deserve to be like the animals and get the punishment and die. But God walks all the way through who can't break a promise, who could never fail. And he says, if you break the promise, I will die for you. We see you, Jesus. We thank you, Lord. Lord, we thank you that you took the punishment, God, that we deserved. And you fulfill all promises, God. You're faithful, God. You're faithful to generations and generations.

So God keeps his promises over the centuries as we see over the millennium and for eternity. And the thing that's so great about God is that his faithfulness isn't dependent on us, on our actions, right? It's actually who he is. It's hidden in his name and we see Moses when he goes out to the burning bush before he goes and saves these people, the Israelites, out of Egypt. He sees the burning bush and he meets with God. And he tells him all the great things that he's gonna do.

And he says, who am I that I can't do this? And then the Lord speaks to him and then Moses says, well, who should I say you are? Like, I know your God, but what's your name? Who should I say you are? And God says, my name is Yahweh. I am who I am. Now, you might think that's like a riddle and that's confusing, but with the beauty and the depth of God, you understand something about his character that I am who I am means he's unchanging. He never changes.

At all times, he is who he is and there's no changing who he is. And this also shows that he's self-existent. He's outside of time. There was no beginning and there's no end. That's a dependable God. That is the God who loves you, who made promises to you and me. And later, when we see Moses ask to see God's glory, God says, I can't show you my face, which really, you know, it could be his face or his poetically, his full glory.

You can't see his glory and live, but you can see my back or the aftermath of my glory going by. I can't even imagine what that would be like. Moses, after he meets with God, his face is shining for days. That's aftermath of his glory. And he didn't even see his face. He just saw the aftermath of God's glory is now leaving aftermath of the glory on him.

And when he passes by in front of Moses, he says, this is what God says, the Lord, the Lord, Yahweh, Yahweh, I am who I am, merciful and gracious. He's declaring who he is here.

I am who I am, merciful and gracious, long suffering and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy, man, sorry guys, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty but visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation. And Moses made haste and bowed down his head towards the earth and worshiped.

Then he said, if now I have found grace in your sight, oh Lord, let my Lord, I pray go among us. Even though we are a stiff neck to stubborn people, pardon our iniquity and sin and take us as your inheritance. It's such an amazing response, like all he wants is Lord be with me and Lord, can we be yours? Knowing that you're stubborn and knowing that you're fail and you already had the golden calf and there was wrath against you, all this stuff and he's saying, can we be your inheritance?

Can we be your people? Can we be yours? And I see that when we see God in his glory, when we know who he truly is, there's nothing in you except to want to be with him and to want to be his and he be yours. And I love that this is who he says he is, like that this is not dependent on what we do.

So often, we as Christians can like mess up and we know like, okay, we're supposed to be holy, we're supposed to do all the right things and now I messed up and God must be distant and far from me and I have to do all this stuff to make him happy again and then maybe we'll be good. And he says that this is unconditional. This isn't based on you.

I've known everything you've ever done and we can actually have the boldness to say Lord, in spite of this, thank you for forgiveness, but in spite of this, I want to be yours and I want you to be with me and he accepts us wholeheartedly because it's who he is. He is the one who is gracious, merciful, long suffering, abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands and forgiving iniquity, transgression and sins. Second Timothy says, if we are faithless, he remains faithful.

He cannot deny himself. Now Jesus is the ultimate revelation of the faithfulness of God. Like we saw this promise of Abraham went all the way to Jesus like we read in Galatians. He is the image of the invisible God. The reason we can even know God is because we know him and he says because you've seen me, you've seen the Father. We can actually know what the invisible God, Father is like because we've seen Jesus in the Word and also in our hearts.

And he is the fulfillment of every single covenant in the Bible. And I'm not going to go through them all. There's seven of them, some debate more, but there's the covenant of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, the land covenant, and then the new covenant. And look it up. It's pretty amazing. Every single one. God, Jesus is the fulfillment of, not the people. And in Numbers 2, we're going to jump forward. There's such great symbolism pointing that Jesus is the fulfillment.

Jesus is the one we should be looking for. And we jump to, well, verse 1. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, Every one of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard beside the emblems of their father's house. They shall camp some distance from the tabernacle of meeting. On the east side toward the rising of the sun, those of the standard of the forces with Judah shall camp according to their armies.

Now we see between the rising of the sun and between the tabernacle, the actual presence of God is in there. The entrance to that is on the east side. So we see from the rising of the sun to the entrance into the presence of God, there is the tribe of Judah. Now Jesus is born from the tribe of Judah. Also, Zachariah in Luke, when he sees pregnant Mary in the temple, he runs up to her and says of Jesus in her womb without even knowing. The Holy Spirit reveals and says, This is the dawn.

The day spring. The dawn from on high has visited us, calling Jesus the dawn. So he is the light of the world, he also says. So the sun is rising. Through Judah, there is entrance into the presence of God. We see the dawn of Jesus in our hearts. He is the only light of the world. And through him, we actually have the ability to enter the presence of God. So my main takeaway from here is pretty simple, that Jesus is faithful. Amen. Jesus is faithful.

And I've experienced his faithfulness honestly every day. Like, it doesn't have to be crazy answered prayers. The fact that I wake up and I know he's with me is proof of his faithfulness, right? You wake up, you talk to him. He's right there. You know he's with you. You feel his presence. That is just proof of how faithful he is because guys, we're not perfect. We mess up, we get distracted.

We know we should be maybe more serious about things of God and we get distracted and, you know, maybe do dumb things. But like, he's still there. He's still faithful. He's still forgiving. Generation to generation, he's never failed. And I see in 2 Corinthians, verse 1, 2 Corinthians 1 verse 20 says, For all the promises of God, in him are yes, and in him are amen, to the glory of God through us. In him, all the promises, every single promise in the word is yes.

It doesn't say, through our obedience, all the promises of God are yes and amen. It says in him, all the promises of God are yes and amen, to the glory of God through us. So I was writing down a list of some of the promises just to think about. This actually is for you. This is for me. This is real life, something we can actually experience. So some of these promises, and there's tons of them. There's too many to write down.

But forgiveness of sins, we have complete and total forgiveness of sins in the past, present, and the future. We have his mercy, which is not getting what we deserve, and his grace, which is getting far more than we could ever expect, and we do not deserve at all. We have eternal life. So this life, though it's important, we know it's not our home, and there's something far greater. We have his constant presence with us at all times.

We have the indwelling Holy Spirit living inside of us, refining us, making us look more like him. We have guidance, wisdom, comfort, help, provision, empowerment, peace, joy, answered prayers, a heavenly home, and adoption as sons and daughters of the Most High God. Don't doubt his faithfulness. Don't doubt his faithfulness.

You know, I love Romans 8. It says, chapter 8, verse 15, we do not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba Father. That's like Daddy God. This is how intimate and close we are. Jesus called him Abba Father. We call him Abba Father. And that spirit, the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

And if children and heirs and heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, that is something you can lean on and rely on. If you ever doubt, maybe, like honestly, sin causes confusion. It's, there's no doubt about it. If you're not walking closely with him, the enemy will put doubts in your mind and you will go off the rails.

But if we come to him, he promises here that his spirit will tell your spirit that you are a child of God and you will be reminded of the joy of your salvation and the confidence of your faith. And so in my life, you know, I see so much faithfulness. I'm just gonna share a few stories that are kind of cool. Yeah, a little bit of time. So, you know, Philippians says, being confident that he has begun a good work will carry it on to completion until the day of Jesus.

So, that means the good work in you, your faith and being formed to look more like God, more like Jesus. He is the one doing the work in us. All we do is submit. So when I was 13, I was just kind of like in a weird place with faith. We had a small group, or not small group, Question Time, whenever you call it after this. So I already shared the story there. I'll keep it brief. But I was at a point in my walk where, you know, you're 13, so you're still a kid. Nothing's super serious yet.

But I still felt God's like speaking to me and wanting me to just like spend more time with him and read the word. You know, my parents are obviously super, super strong in their faith. And they weren't pastors. My dad wasn't a pastor at the time, but still like my mom and my dad showed me how to read the Bible and journal and all that stuff. So I knew what I was supposed to do, but I didn't want to. And honestly, like, it was hard for me to think that Christianity was fun.

It kind of seemed boring. And I'm like, do I really want to do this? Like, God, I know you're real. I know I'm a Christian. But like, I don't want to really do this, right? And so it was like right around Christmas, right after Christmas. And we go to church, Central Bucks, Calvary Central Bucks, sitting there. It's like all the chairs are kind of like this, but really long rows. And there's this guy next to me, this bigger guy I've never seen ever before sitting next to me.

And he keeps interrupting me while I'm listening to the message. And I'm like thinking about all this stuff. And I'm like, man, like, okay. We talked, he asked me what he got for Christmas, you know, like 13-year-old questions. And then I was like, I feel like I should be paying attention, but this guy keeps talking to me. And then the main thing I was struggling with was reading the Word. And he leans next to me and he speaks. And it was totally God. He says, read this.

And he hands me a book of the Psalms of Proverbs. He says, read this every single day and it will change your life. Right while I'm struggling with this very thing. And he also gave me a silver dollar, which I still have to remember. And so I was like, oh, wow, that's kind of cool timing. I was like, thank you. So I put in my pocket and then the whole service ends and I turn to my parents and my brother and sister and we're like talking and stuff.

And like maybe 60 to 90 seconds later I turn around and look and he's not there anymore. I'm like, okay, well, he probably just left. I was like, but there's people down. There's like six people at the end of the aisle. They'd all have to get up. And he's not like the type of guy that just jump over the row, you know. So then I'm like, okay, I look like in the back and he's not there and there's a window and I look out and he's not in the parking lot. And I never saw him again.

So I'm like, okay, either this guy is like a spiritual ninja sent by God to a 13 year old or maybe this was an angel, which I have faith it was because it had such a profound impact on my life. Another one that I see God's faithfulness to me was buying a house. Back in the day, it was like 2018 and I was like, okay, there's no way we're going to afford a house. We'll just try. Get pre-approved for a mortgage. I'm like, okay, cool.

So then we see this house on the market, put in an offer, we lose it. It's Nashville. Things are crazy. It's like hard to get a house. Then there's this like, we're just driving home kind of down about the fact we're like, we're never going to be able to buy a house. And then, you know like when clouds have silver linings from the sun behind it, it's one of those silver lining clouds and there's rays of light shooting through it. And I randomly get emotional and I tear up.

I'm like, what the heck? Like why am I crying at this sunset? And I, but I just felt like I turned to Maria. We're driving. I'm like, I think this means something for our house. Don't know what, but I feel like God has something for us. And I believe them. The very next morning, Maria went on Zillow. There's a house that pops up. It looks perfect. It's in Sunset Hills neighborhood on sundown drive. We go in. We put in an offer. They're Christians. We tell them we're Christians.

There's seven offers ahead of us. There's better offers, cash offers, and they see that we're Christians and a young couple that's going to have kids and they say, we want to give it to them. And we get the house. Another one. One more. So when we were praying about getting pregnant with Beau. So, you know, we're thinking of names. Like, what could we do? I don't know. Maria. There's a rainbow outside. So Maria says, what about rain?

Well, turns out is like, I said no right away because I knew when she's in middle school, she liked a guy named rain. I'm like, there's no way you're naming our kid rain. And she's like, well, what about Beau? I was like, it's pretty good. Actually, I like Beau. And BAU is how we spelled it. So Maria, you know how it is your first time. And I think there were some things actually, like when they were doing scans that we're a little worried about.

So Maria would just pray and ask God, like, Lord, I pray that you would keep Beau healthy and that he would be born a healthy baby. And I kid you not, we would see rainbows, like more in those nine months than my entire life, like combined. And there's rainbows everywhere. And then when she's in labor and we're flying to the hospital, it's raining. The clouds break. The sun shoots through. There's a huge rainbow going over the highway when we're five minutes out from the hospital.

And I'm like, what? So we're just like, thank you, Lord. And we go in and like, there was a moment there where the heartbeat, his heartbeat was dropping and everyone starts running around. And I just knew, I'm like, the promise, the faithfulness of God, we're going to be okay. And he's born, he's super healthy and awesome. And he's, you know, it just, it proves that like, if we just open our eyes and pray and look around, he's going to prove his faithfulness all the time.

And one last thing, just thinking about the Israelites during this time, like, sometimes when we are in perceived chaos, like things are going crazy, we actually don't realize that God's fully in control, right? Like he fully knows what's going to happen and he's going to use all things together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose. So here, the Israelites are slaves.

They don't realize that this was part of the promise of God to do something great through them, to bring about the savior of the world, right? And so they're slaves, they're being tormented. And then this random guy Moses who used to be part of the nation that was tormenting him, he was a Jew, but he, you know, adopted by Pharaoh. So they're like, do we trust this guy? And then God starts doing these plagues, just like unbelievable plagues.

And, you know, they're in the midst of this chaos and they're probably thinking like, man, if this keeps up, maybe we're going to die from a plague, maybe Pharaoh's going to kill us because Moses just keeps going back and doing this, like what's his problem? And then God pulls them out, but then they're in the wilderness and then like all this mayhem is happening. But the whole time God had a plan and was actually in control.

And in the midst of perceived chaos, there was actually extreme peace they could have knowing that God is faithful and there was an extreme sense of order. Like they met the God of order when they went out there. The laws of Leviticus, like can you get more in depth and orderly than that? That is our God. And so all I want to say is with that in mind, like you might feel like you're in chaos, like maybe personally, maybe mentally, emotionally.

Maybe it's, you know, your family, your work, whatever in life, you might feel like it's chaos. But remember that God is a faithful God. That God has a plan that's bigger than anything we can be going through. And that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion. He will not fail. So let's just pray it out. I got some questions we can go over, but I just want to pray and thank him for how good he is. Lord, Yahweh, I am who I am. Lord, we thank you that you never change.

Lord, we thank you that in you, the father of lights, every good and perfect gift comes from you, Lord. There is no variation or shadow of turning God. You will never stop being faithful. It is who you are, Lord. And I just pray, God, that like Moses, we would have hearts that would just say, Lord, would you just be with me? I want to be with you. I want to be yours.

And I pray, God, that we would open our eyes, Lord, that your spirit would reveal how you've been so faithful every single day, God. And I pray that we would also see, Lord, where there's chaos, there's a peace-filled, loving God that has a plan. And I pray that that would rise up faith in us. We love you so much. In Jesus' name, Amen. Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss His word. Don't forget to join us for worship lives Sunday mornings

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